Season 15 is a star is born. Who was crowned the last american idol. It is all happening now. But we begin our second hour on the campaign trail as the race moves east. And the candidates set their prize on new york. Hello and welcome to happening now. I am jon scott. And i am heather in for jenna lee. There are dell dpats up for grabs today. John kasich held a town hall last hour in connecticut. And Hillary Clinton barn starmed the adopted home state. And her rival Bernie Sanders hits new york city. We have live fox team coverage. We start with ed henry who is following the two democrats. Reporter an abrupt shift for Bernie Sanders. He slammed Hillary Clinton suggesting that she is not qualified to be president because of a range of issues because of campaign contributions, from wall street, to her vote in favor of the war in iraq. Today sanders said clearly Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president of the united states, but will not back down from attacks from the Clinton Campaign
With five northern states and Eastern States from the midatlantic up for grabs and that could put trump even closer to clinching the nomination. Jon lets go to correspondent john roberts live in philadelphia with more on all that. John . Reporter good morning. We will be here a week from yesterday, the 26. More than five states including connecticut, maryland, rhode island and delaware. The most important thing about last night for donald trump is it turned the narrative around. We talked about this idea of winning creating its own momentum and trump now hopes his campaign will be like a snowball rolling downhill as we head toward the remaining 15 contests in this primary fight. Donald trump now only need 53 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch and after last nights when theres an increasing belief among some people in the party that he will win it on the first ballot at the convention. For his part last night, donald trump was sounding confident. We dont have much of a race an
Win. And this year, they really, really want to think that. They really want to think theyve got a shot at wisconsin. Theyre running against Hillary Clinton who didnt do great in the wisconsin primary on the democratic side. Hillary clinton lost the wisconsin primary by, like 13 points. So thats against her. Also in the primaries this year, more people turned out to vote in the republican primary than turned out to vote in the democratic primary in wisconsin. The kind of numbers can matter. Republicans in wisconsin have control of the state senate. Republicans have control of the state senate, of the Governors Mansion with scott walker. Republicans have also under scott walker pushed through really draconian voting restrictions that could mess with wisconsin, particularly among minority voters and poor voters. Although in the very recent past, in the last couple of weeks, courts have stepped in to block some of the worst of the wisconsin voting restrictions. So, on paper, i think the R
And i think theyve kept their hopes alive all these years in part because even though they keep losing there every four years, sometimes they only lose by a little. So every four years, they call wisconsin a swing state. The republicans make a huge effort to try to win. They do always lose there. But they really think they can win. And this year, they really, really want to think that. They really want to think theyve got a shot at wisconsin. Theyre running against Hillary Clinton who didnt do great in the wisconsin primary on the democratic side. Hillary clinton lost the wisconsin primary by, like 13 points. So thats against her. Also in the primaries this year, more people turned out to vote in the republican primary than turned out to vote in the democratic primary in wisconsin. Those kind of numbers can matter. Republicans in wisconsin have control of the state senate. Republicans have control of the state senate, of the Governors Mansion with scott walker. Republicans have also un
Lebron james. Ill ask senator Sherrod Brown if the king can deliver ohio when all in starts right now. Good evening from washington, d. C. , im chris hayes. Tonight, donald trump and his running mate mike pence are campaigning in battleground states trying to rebound from the worst week probably ever. Its been seven days since trumps disastrous performance followed by the feud with former Miss Universe accusing him of mistreatment and attacking Hillary Clinton over her husbands sexual history. A bunch of new battleground states suggest this has taken a toll. Clinton now holds sizeable leads in colorado, florida, pennsylvania and just barely North Carolina, enough states to deliver an Electoral College win. Trump still holds the lead in ohio. After all of that this weekend came the New York Times bombshell report, a loophole that may have allowed him to avoid paying federal income tax for two decades. The nominee tried to explain it away using language from his convention speech. Nobody